A social experiment was done recently in Norway. Hidden cameras were set up to cover it and the results show something in the human spirit, no matter whether in the US or abroad, that gives hope that we as people really care.

An 11-year-old boy sat shivering, freezing, and jacket-less at a bus stop in Oslo on a cold winter's day. Others saw him, alone and chilled to the bone. Watch and see how they reacted. How would you have handled this? What would you do?

"People [everywhere] should care as much about children in Syria as they care about this boy," Synne Rønning, the information head of SOS Children's Villages Norway, told The Local. She also noted that the child was a volunteer who was never in any danger during the filming.

Doesn't this video show us that we do care? Now how about those hundreds of thousands of displaced children in Syria? Want to help? Here's how:

I'm sure they might have called someone had this experiment gone further, but offering warmth in the midst of a cold is the first step -- then the call can follow. Good point though.

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Did anyone call some sort of child protective services? I know of people who think they are helping but what they are doing amounts to feeding a man for day, instead of teaching him to fish. Children need to be removed from abusive, neglectful living arrangements, not helped for a day!

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